The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1887-01-20
SCIENTIFIC TRUTH
Regarding the Functions Of
an Important Organ. 3
or Which the Public Knows But
Little-- Worthy Careful Con-
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To the Editor of the Scientific american:
WI you permit us TO make kn0brn 10
the public the facts we hare learned
during The past years, concerning
disorders Of the human kidneys and
the organs which diseased kidneys so
easily break down. You are conducting
scientific paper and are unprejudiced
except in favor Of Truth. Ii is useless
to say no medical Journal Of Code"
standing acouid admit these facts TOR
rery oboious reasons.
II. II. WARNER d CO.,
Proprictors Of "Wdrner's Safe Cure"
That we may emphasize and clearly
explain the relation the kidneys sus-
tain to the general health, and how
much is dependent upon them, we
propose, mstaphorically speaking, to
take one from the human body, place
In the wash bowl before us, and ex-
anime it for the public benefit.
You will imagine that we have be-
fore us body shaped like bean,
smooth and glistening. about four
inches in length, two in width and
one in thickness. 1t ordinarily weighs
in the adult male about five ounces,
but is somewhat lighter in the female.
A small organ? you say. But UNDER
stand, the body OF the average size
man contains about ten quarts of
blood, of which every drop passes
through these filters or sewers, as they
may be called, many times day,
as often as the heart, making a COM
plete revolution in three minutes.
From the blood they separate the
waste material, working away steadily
night and day, sleeping- or waking,
tireless as the heart itself, and fully
OF AS much importance; removing
impurities from sixty-five gallons OF
blood each hour, or about iorty- nine
barrels each day, or 9,l25 hogs
heads year! What wonder that
the kidneys can last suy length of
time under this prodigious strain,
treated and neglected as they are?
We slice this delicate organ open
lengthwise with our knife and will
roughly describe its interior:
We find it to be OF reddish
brown color, soft and easily torn.
filed with hundreds OF little tubas.
short and thread-like, starting from
the arteries, ending in little tuft
about midway from the outside open-
ing of a cavity of considerable size,
which is called the pelvis. or, roughly
speaking, a sac. which is for the
purpose of holding the water to
further undergo publication before it
passes down from here into the
ufeiers, and SO on to the outside of
the body. These little tubes are
the filters which do their work auto
matically, and right here is whee tho
diseose Of the kidney first begins.
Doing the vast amount Of work
which they are Obliged to, from the
SHY htest irregularity in our habits,
from cold. from high living, from
stimulants e- thousand and one
other causes which occur every day,
they become somewhat weakened in
their nerve force.
What is the result? Congestion or
the small blood vessels surrounding
them, which become blocked; these
delicate membranes are irritated +;
inflammation Is set up, then pus is
formed, which collects in the pelyis or
sac; the tubes are at first partially,
and soon are totally, unable to do
their work. The pelvic sac goes on
distending with this corruption, pres
sing upon the blood vessels. All
this time, remember, tho blood,
which is entering the kidneys to be
filter ed, is passing through this terrible,
disgusting ptts, for it cannot take any
other route
Stop and think Of it for mo-
ment. Do you realize the importance,
nay the vital necessity, oil having the
kidneys in order? Can you expect
when they are diseased or obstructed,
no matter how little, that you can
have pure blood and escape disease
1t would be just rs reasonable to ex-
pect, il pest house were set across
Broadway and countless thousands
were compelled osgo through it's
pestilential doors, and escape from
coptagion and disease, as for one
to expect the blood to escape pollution
when constantly running through =
diseased kidney.
Now, what is the result? Why,
that the blood takes up and deposits
this poison as it sweeps along into
every organ, into every inch of muscle,
tissue. flesh and bone, from your
head to your feet. And wheneve..
from hereditary influence or otherwise
some part of the body is weaker
than another, countless train OF dis
eases is established, such as con
sumption in weak lungs, dyspepsia,
where there is delicate stomach F.,
nervousness, insanity, paralysis OF
heart disease in those who have weak
nerves.
The heart must soon feel the effects OF
the poison, as IL requires pure blood to
keep 1t IN right action. 1t increases its
stroke in number and force to COM
pensate for the natural stimulus want
ing, in it's endeavor to crowd the
impure blood through this obstruc-
ton, causing pain, palpitation, or an
out-of-breath feeling. Unnatural as
this forced labor is, the heart must
soon falter, becoming weaker and
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